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All the ideas for 'Concerning the Author', 'On Metaphysics (frags)' and 'The Nature of Musical Expression'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics

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The demonstrations of the metaphysicians are all moonshine [Peirce]

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

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I am saturated with the spirit of physical science [Peirce]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 3. Fallibilism

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Infallibility in science is just a joke [Peirce]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 2. Associationism

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Association of ideas is the best philosophical idea of the prescientific age [Peirce]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

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Duns Scotus offers perhaps the best logic and metaphysics for modern physical science [Peirce]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 4. Art as Expression

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Romantics say music expresses ideas, or the Will, or intuitions, or feelings [Scruton]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 4. Emotion in Art

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Expressing melancholy is a good thing, but arousing it is a bad thing [Scruton]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / c. Purpose denied

5990	Theophrastus doubted whether nature could be explained teleologically [Theophrastus, by Gottschalk]